L. 
ON WIDOWS UNRELEASED FROM DEATH-CEREMONIES. 
Well, now I shall tell this just as the one who knows what they did 
long ago related it. 
When a woman’s husband first died, it seems she was told what she 
should do. 
“Well, this is what you must do. You must untie your hair. Do 
not look at any one for four days before he (your husband) is laid to 
rest. Take off your clothing. You must put these (clothes) on,” 
she was told by the sister (of the dead). 
And on the fourth day when he was taken and laid to rest, she went 
along. Then at that place she was again told what she should do. 
The direction was set for her. ‘“‘You are to go circling from the 
north, then south, and you shall walk toward the east,’’ she was told. 
“You must walk in the brush all the time,” she was told. 
And when she came she was carefully instructed as to what she 
should do. ‘‘ Well, for four days you must keep walking around in 
the brush all the time,’ she was told. “And do not look around. 
Simply look always ahead where you are going. And you must 
always put on your clothes early in the morning.” 
Then on the fourth day she knew some one went by her. And then 
she was left. ‘‘ Well, this is what you are to do,” she was told. “As 
long as he has not been taken care of (i. e., an adoption-feast held for 
the husband), you must treat your body carefully. You must not 
lean against trees,” she was told. “And also do not bother with 
your hair: only if you are permitted to, then you may. And this. 
Do not think of wading across these brooks. If you do they will dry 
up. And this. When it is spring do not touch anything that is 
planted. You will make the (Indian) harvest poor if you do that. 
Tt will not rain. Everything will be spoiled. Now the manitous will 
surely look at you and see whatever you do. And this. You must 
not eat the products of the matured harvest when it is first matured. 
And this. Do not eat any sweet foods when they are first matured. 
And in spring, if you plant something, you must throw away tobacco 
so that you may plant a little something there. You truly have a 
hard time now in the way you are fixed. And this. If you begin eating 
sweet things you must throw away tobacco. You willsend anyone to 
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